Raiding the Archives

I’ve been at the photography game seriously for about ten years
now. I’m not going to claim to have been the most prolific shooter
during that period, but I have managed to fill a bookshelf row with
negatives.

Recently I’ve been trying to come to terms that I’ll probably
never break the last-in-first-out buffer that I seem to operate
with my photography work flow. I’ll scan the images that
I beleive to be the best-of-the-best as I’m cutting the negatives
and putting them into sleeves. Anything lesser, or doesn’t seem to
fit with whatever aesthetic is in my head at that period pretty
much goes forgotten if I don’t come back to it within a month. The
ones I do scan I’ll usually print, and then stuff into a drawer to
be forgotten in their own way.

Arranging all the old prints into a nice coherent collections of
images is something I’ll probably never get around to doing, so
what I’m going to do instead, is stand in front of my shelf, shut
my eyes and grab a binder at random. Open that binder to a random
page, and post one to four images from it, along with whatever I
can recall about the scene off the top of my head.

They might be lost gems, or they might be absolutely terrible.
But I don’t care, it’ll give me something fun (for me at least) to
do to keep this blog churning. At the very best it will be like a
little miniature This
American Life story. At the very worst it will be like 85% of
all photo blogs in existence. Lets roll.

October 2008

This one comes at the end of the year where I thought for sure
that young children were being abducted in droves, and nobody was
noticing. All summer long I would walk past seemingly abandoned
girl bikes with white tires. One of which was found mangled
alongside a busy roadway. This one however, was tucked away
behind a vending machine in front of a supermarket at about 7:30 in
the morning.

Miscellaneous street photo. Taken while out for lunch one day at
work. No specific story that I remember to go along with it.

Well that was fun wasn’t it? I’ll attempt to try to do this
weekly, although I expect that that schedule will vary wildly.